research is fuzzier than we'd like, but the need for policy is always urgent
Politics should only decide the answers to questions that can't be answered by research. If you want a heuristic for detecting extremists (on both the far left and the far right), this could be the most effective.
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Unfortunately, people find a way to make even science serve political agendas...
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I'm not sure it's the deciding of the answers that's the problem - it's the execution and implementation by people who are only trained in argument and grandstanding.
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Politicians should only make statements and decisions backed by data and research
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So politicians will back the research that favours their position and limit the research that could have potentially negative outcomes for a policy position. Doesn't work.
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Research is always political.
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Because defining apolitical research comes down to... ...politics. ;)
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Even within science there can be partisan schools of thought, eg economics. Also, generally politics talks about long term, high variate outcomes of decisions that can never be modeled in their complexity.
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But... the existential questions people actually care about cannot (currently) be answered by research (do people like me? is god real?, why am I here? etc.) And, more problematically, the questions that *can* be answered by research (should I wear a mask?) become political.
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A simple (easy to grasp) question like "how high should property taxes be, if anything" is impossible to frame as apolitical. That is true for every human behaviour because you can research causal links, not which preferences should get the upper hand.
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